Our Clans, our Communites and our Nations, believe in the supremacy and the power of the Creator and that the natural laws of the Creator are the only laws of the Wabanaki People imprinted in the Wampum belts who also define our original Jurisdiction, inherent Rights, responsibilities and obligations amongst ourselves and all Peoples of all Nations and Races of the universe.

The Creator, the life Force is the one that has provided the Wabanaki People, its Clans, its Communities and its Nations with spiritual beliefs, languages, cultures, natural laws ,rights, land, freedom, the right to self determination, the right to govern its relationship and to live in harmony with nature and mankind,

AND

In accordance with the principles of our traditions and customs and in recognition of the first contemporary international treaty ratified in "SPIRIT AND TERMS" of the Great Peace of Montreal that took place on August 4, 1701, among all the Wabanaki Nations of eastern and central Canada and United States, and together with the Nations of the new comers,

AND

With this declaration we want to reiterate our obligation among the Wabanaki people our Clans, our Communites, our Nations and our Wabanaki Confederacy:

WE THE WABANAKI PEOPLE DECLARE:

That we the Wabanaki people, duly assembled in the Wabanaki Confederacy Lodge and beside around sacred Fire, are desirous of joining together as one People for our general benefit and mutual advantage. We, by this declaration, solemnly declare that this declaration serves as our constitution, and we will govern ourselves, our CLans, our communities, our Nations and our Wabanaki Confederacy according to its fundamental laws and principles:

it is the original right of the Wabanaki People to govern ourselves according to our traditional original laws;

that all political authority is vested in and derived from the Wabanaki People;

all governing authority flows from and is dependant upon the will of the Wabanaki People;

the Wabanaki People place their confidence and belief in a communal, national and confederate judicial process of an impartial nature developed within the structure of the Wabanaki Confederacy, to deal with conflicts between our Citizens, our Communities and our Nations and other Peoples;

therefore no act of other sovereign Peoples or Nations, their agents and theirs institutions may directly or indirectly alter any meaning intent or actions as expressed by the Wabanaki People.

PROCLAMATION

Be it proclaimed that the Wabanaki People have resolved to govern themselves according to the provisions herein and this declaration be the base of our written Wabanaki Confederacy constitution and in compliance with our original jurisdiction on all our ancestral territory .